3 graduations and a funeral

This past week has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. There were 6 graduating students from my church, so we had a wind-up for them and I also got to attend their grad ceremonies. Then, as I work in a high school, I also went to that ceremony. It was all good--and I'm so proud of all of them! It's hard to believe that next year's going to be my 10 year reunion--time flies!

This week also brought an end for now to my time as a youth leader and to my job. My plan in the fall is to head off to Ecuador again and get a job teaching English. It was really hard to leave both of those things, though--they've both played such huge parts in my life. Over the May long weekend, I got to go to Minneapolis with the youth from church--there's something about those kinds of trips that just bonds you to those you're with! And, with my job, I have really loved the people I've been blessed to work with. So, yeah, I'm going on to some exciting things, but I'm going to miss what I'm leaving behind. I'm thankful for the way God has blessed me these past two years, but transitions are never easy.

My uncle also died this week. I was never close to him but it was hard to see my Grandma have to bury her son and my cousin bury her father. He had married into an Aboriginal family so a lot of his adopted family was at the funeral. It was so neat to hear how he had impacted them and made such a huge difference in their family's life (and a little sad that I hadn't known that much about him before). It was also neat to see two cultures combine forces to organize a funeral service that was true to each one.

Right now I'm busy planning another trip--I'm off to England in just over 2 weeks! :)
I'm going to visit my friend, Naomi--plus a friend from church is going to come and meet me while I'm out there so we can make a little jaunt over to France and Italy.
Good times!


En el mes de junio estuve muy muy muy occupada por causa de los graduaciones de colegio. Soy lidera de los adolescentes en mi iglesia y hubo 6 chicos graduando (plus yo trabajo en un colegio), entonces fui a 3 graduaciones. Fueron bonitos--pero es dificil creer que ya ha estado NUEVE anos desde MI graduacion! El tiempo vuele!

La semana pasada tambien termine mi trabajo y mi posicion de lidera de adolescentes. Es porque en septiembre/octubre, si es la voluntad de Dios, me gustaria regresar a Ecuador por 10 meses mas o menos para encontrar trabajo (como maestra de ingles). Ahora estoy buscando trabajo y veremos como Dios me guia. Estoy emocionante por este--pero tambien fue dificil dejar mi trabajo en Canada y los adolescentes. Los cambios son dificiles--pero puedo estar agradecido con Dios por los oportunidades que El me ha dado!

La semana pasada mi tio se murio tambien. No lo conoci muy bien pero fue dificil ver mi abuelita y la hija de mi tio llorar por el.

Bueno, ahora estoy preparando por una viaje--en 2 semanitas me voy a inglaterra!!!! Una de mis mejores amigas vive alla entonces la voy a visitar!